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I made this comment over on Tim Boucher’s site where he has been talking about history, both cultural and personal. This sums up one strand of theory that I am currently working on called Narrative Theory.
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Everything is narrative from a certain point of view.
I think i have said it before on this site, but I have a theory that you are constantly telling yourself a story about your past, about what is happening in the present and what you expect your future to be.
And people revise this story all of the time. It’s like a meta program that we all run, keeps us motivated, gives us direction, shit like that.
History is just the collective version of this, the culture is always telling itself a narrative about its past, its present direction and it’s future.
Oh yeah, and that other bit of wisdom “History is always told by the winning side”
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I have found that being aware of the story that you are telling yourself is a very empowering thing. The story that you tell yourself defines who you are and what you think you can do. Change the story and you essentially change who you are, and the meaning of events in your past. Once you know that you are a creator of the story that you listen to you can look at your self imposed limits, the part where the story says that you couldn’t possibly do, and see that you have the power to transcend this limit.
It is also good to keep in mind that everyone around you is doing this as well. Peoples behavior and thoughts are dictated by the story that they have internalized and are now telling to themselves. People tell themselves that they are rich when they are just getting by, then go and spend up big on credit because they have internalised the story and really do think that they are rich. Sometimes this works for people, they “fake it till they make it” and the projection of being rich and confident with money actually opens up business opportunities for them and contacts, so they actually do become rich. For others reality turns around and bites them hard.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Some people are grounded in the prison of their past. This becomes their point of reference for thoughts and feelings, their reason for expectations, their base understanding of who they are. From the moment you choose to examine your rituals or behaviour and what you truly desire to release, then you will begin to bring your meaning of personal success to the surface. This is not always what you already assume it is. In fact, it imay be an opportunity to learn about you.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I agree that people need to work out what they define as personal success, and really examine it and think about why this is their definition. Is it really what they want?
A lot of people think they want the fast car, the big bank account and the high profile job. But these things are societal expectations. True happiness comes from following your passions, learning new things and being given the opportunity to grow as a person
February 11th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Hey, Steve. Developing a perspective from which you can observe yourself is advanced mind-training. I am involved in that type of thinking with A Course In Miracles. I sense you have a broad perspective and even suggest the idea of changing your past. I have done this with regrets I had about my parents. After they died I finally went in and rewrote the script in a couple of scenes. It absolutely works. I could feel them cheering me on. The fake it till you make it style must be done without conflicting agendas. My narrative is: I am an eternal whole part of God. I cannot die, that which dies is not what I am. The unifying principle of the universe is Love and I am only happy when expressing - extending Love. My goal is to grow beyond being a “person” and move into the next realm of evolution. I don’t know what that is, but this world is not it.